Female Crash Fatality Risk Relative to Males for Similar Physical Impacts

Excerpt:  “This report updates part of a previous [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)] study examining female fatality risk relative to males in driver-side or right-front (RF) passenger-side (front-row) fatal crashes with similar physical impacts. The purpose of this report is to present updated findings by focusing on trends in relative female fatality risk from older to newer vehicle model years (MY) and from older to newer generations of occupant protection systems in an attempt to capture the effects of recent vehicle safety improvements and to determine whether differentials in fatality outcome by sex remain. It should be noted that this study looked only at female fatality risk relative to males and did not look at absolute female fatality risk.”